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Saturday, 10 January 2015

The Last of Us: Remastered Vs Persona 4 Golden

Somewhere buried in this blog, there's a post where I had a moan about The Last of Us Remastered. I moaned because the idea of "remaking" or "remastering" games from the last gen is nothing more than a shitty cash grab to try and make people buy the same game twice.

So I'm playing Persona 4 Golden on my Vita when I start thinking, what is it about The Last of Us on PS4 that makes me angry while P4G doesn't? Both are games that aren't all that old except while TLoU feels like a shitty cash grab P4G doesn't.

Before I start, I just want to say I'm not commenting on the quality of The Last of Us as a game, the game is a'ite. I don't think it's the second coming of Jesus or the best story ever written for a game but it plays well and it's fun. I've also not played Remastered but I've spent a damn long time googling the version differences before I made this post and with what I found I can safely say, if you bought Remastered (after owning the original), you are a moron. If you bought it on PS4 because you didn't own it on PS3, fair enough.

Anyway, let's start with what I found regarding TLoU: Remastered. What I found is that Remastered comes with all the DLC, features a photo mode, some commentary and runs at a higher frame rate. BIG FUCKIN' WHOOP. I googled the price on Amazon too and they want fucking £35 goddamn pounds for this shit. Are the added "features" in this version worth another full price sale? I don't fucking think so. The big fucking hubub seems to be that it runs at 60fps on PS4 but is there any reason I couldn't have done that on PS3? I'm pretty sure Metal Gear Rising runs at 60fps and that shits a lot more hectic than TLoU so what the fuck is going on there?

I suppose you could argue that with all the DLC thrown in, it's kind of worth it but fuck the DLC. The single player add on is like 2 hours long and who gives a fuck about the multiplayer? There are much better games if you want multiplayer shooting.

So what about Persona 4 Golden? Why is that so much better?

Well fuck, if I tried to list of the reasons it would take all day because there's A LOT of shit going on with P4G. While graphically there isn't much going on, there are so many things added to the game itself it'll make your fucking head spin.

There's extra dungeons, extra social links, extra arcanas for your monsters, extra cutscenes, new dialogue, re-worked combat, extra anime scenes for those who like that and this is just a small selection of things. When I first fired up P4G I was expecting the same thing as the PS2 version but I ended up getting all this extra shit for no extra cost.

Now let's talk cost. If you happen to live in the UK and you want to play P4G, it only costs about £13 off Amazon. £13! Hell, you could buy the PS3 version of The Last of Us and get P4G with the money you saved. Persona 4 isn't fucking around either, this is a meaty game with tons of shit to do that will last you way WAY longer. Then, if you're a perfectionist, you even get some replay value for your £13 and there's even an insane difficulty mode for the true SMT masters.

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I'm expecting someone to pop up at some point and call me a prick for ragging on TLoU: Remastered but it pisses me off because it's a cashgrab of the most transparent kind. Go look at the wikipedia page and it says that development on Remastered began straight after they finish the original game so obviously Naughty Dog think their customers are fucking idiots and judging from sales figures, a lot are. Like I said, if you bought it because you didn't own the original and thought you'd get the "better" version, then fair enough I guess but remaking a game from one generation ago is fucking disgusting and it shows me how little respect some of this AAA game devs and publishers have for their customers.

Finally, before anyone calls me a hypocrite for buying P4G, all my PS2 games were stolen and I lost my original PS2 copy. But even if that wasn't the case, P4G is still worth buying because it has tons of extra shit for a super low price.